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Here is my source of the time traveler story and the discovery that it was a
hoax.
I was hoping it was true! <G> It was fun while it lasted.
Regards,
Norman
----- Original Message -----
From: "super_romeman" <super_romeman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gannsghost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 6:25 PM
Subject: [gannsghost] Re: Kids, Don't Try This At Home...
> Something has bothered me about this story since I posted it, which
> was that it appears only on two entertainment pages of Yahoo (not
> even in their news section).
>
> This story was so sensational and so impressive that it should have
> been written up by many news services. But I could not find it in the
> Google News directory or in a Google Internet search, which caused me
> to be suspicious about its authenticity.
>
> Just now I did a renewed search on Google and I find that the
> prestigious Times of London newspaper reports, in this article that
> follows, that this story was a fraud.
>
> My apologies for perpetuating what the Times calls a "myth."
>
> best, romeman
>
> City Diary by Martin Waller
>
> Netting a good yarn
>
> AN ALLEGED Wall Street insider dealer, arrested after making a
> fortune from suspiciously timed purchases, has come up with the
> weirdest excuse yet. Andrew Carlssin, 44, told the Securities and
> Exchange Commission that he was a time traveller from the year 2256,
> taking advantage of our well-documented market collapse. The SEC is,
> understandably, unwilling to believe him. "He's either a
> lunatic or a
> pathological liar," said an insider there. Such is the story,
> apparently culled from a number of news websites, doing the rounds of
> the City. Alas, it is merely one of the better internet myths. The
> SEC has never heard of Carlssin, and several "facts" are
> plainly
> untrue.
>
> It reminds me of Henry Turkelbaum. He was the workaholic New York
> proof-reader who spent so long at his desk that his death there went
> unnoticed by colleagues for days. Another myth, but well entrenched
> in "fact" now. The fictitious Carlssin's place in history
> is assured.
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,630-627115,00.html
>
>
> --- In gannsghost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "super_romeman"
> <super_romeman@xxxx> wrote:
> > If you find the Holy Grail any time soon, it is probably NOT a good
> > idea to take your account from $800 to $350 million in only two
> > weeks' time. :-))
> >
> > The authorities tend to become suspicious.
> >
> > best, romeman
> >
> > 'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
> > Wednesday March 19, 2003
> >
> > By CHAD KULTGEN
> >
> > NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall
> > Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims
> to
> > be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
> >
> > Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-
> year-
> > old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny
> > success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on
> > January 28.
> >
> > "We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a
> > pathological liar," says an SEC insider.
> >
> > "But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two
> > weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every
> > trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments,
> which
> > simply can't be pure luck.
> >
> > "The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside
> > information. He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island
> until
> > he agrees to give up his sources."
> >
> > The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors
> > crying in their beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126 high-
> risk
> > trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows
> of
> > Wall Street watchdogs.
> >
> > "If a company's stock rose due to a merger or technological
> > breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin somehow
> > knew about it in advance," says the SEC source close to the hush-
> > hush, ongoing investigation.
> >
> > When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got
> more
> > than they bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour confession.
> >
> > Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200
> > years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era
> > experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone
> > armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go
> through
> > the roof could make a fortune.
> >
> > "It was just too tempting to resist," Carlssin allegedly said in
> his
> > videotaped confession. "I had planned to make it look natural, you
> > know, lose a little here and there so it doesn't look too perfect.
> > But I just got caught in the moment."
> >
> > In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to
> > divulge "historical facts" such as the whereabouts of Osama Bin
> Laden
> > and a cure for AIDS.
> >
> > All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his "time
> > craft."
> >
> > However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or
> discuss
> > how it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could "fall
> into
> > the wrong hands."
> >
> > Officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are
> bogus.
> > Yet the SEC source admits, "No one can find any record of any
> Andrew
> > Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002."
> >
> > Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds.
> > Keep watching for further developments.
> >
> > http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html
>
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